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fiction under the pen name "Pearl Bellairs", among others. Her parents
divorced when she was five. She lived with her mother, sister and
grandmother until she started college and, as a result, grew up
believing "the world was peopled by females". This problably
influenced her works too.
§ She returned to England with her mother and studied economics and
psychology at the University of
St Andrews in Scotland.
§ Her actual christened name was "Franklin Birkinshaw". which she
feels contributed to her being accepted at
St Andrews and permitted to study economics: the school assumed
she was a male student applicant.
Early life
§ In her early twenties she was briefly married to a man more than twenty years
older than her. It is not clear whether she had her first son during this
marriage or earlier.
§ Raising her son as a single mother, she looks back on her twenties as times
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